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Professor Edwin Wilson↓Department of Biology↓Harvard University
↓Cambridge, Massachusetts∞
Dear Professor Wilson:

	I am thinking of organizing a session for the next AAAS
meeting in Denver entitled "Threats to Freedom of Scientific
Inquiry" covering both historic and contemporary issues.  Thus
I would like to get someone to talk about the old-fashioned
religious attacks on science, someone, hopefully Medvedev, to
talk about Lysenkoism.  It seems to me that you have had some
recent relevant experience, and I wonder if you would be willing
to talk about it.

	What set me off in this direction was the recent meeting
of AAAS and the activities of "Science for the People", and most
of all, the fact while most people ignored them, no-one had
anything to say in opposition to their doctrine.  I think that
if no-one opposes them, they may eventually win, or at least
their moralism will wear down the majority of scientists who
have not thought deeply about the necessity for freedom of
scientific inquiry.


	There has been a mild threat in computer science
coming from Professor Joseph Weizenbaum of M.I.T., but I haven't
decided whether this rates a response.

	I would be most grateful for your comments, advice,
and, if you are sufficiently interested, collaboration.
In particular, I could you recommend someone to tell about the
Harvard XYY flap?

.sgn